Detect Fake or Fact? How Fake-news Damaged Freedom of Speech in Long term?
How Fakenews damage Freedom of speech in the longterm? How to detect them and report them?
One of my research approach goals is to make an application to increase the awareness and critical thinking of the teenage group via the companion application. But before bringing it to reality, I should educate myself and enhance my knowledge about the last methods to detect malicious content, especially Fake News (Disinformation and false narrative).
I practiced a multi-reference comparison via the Reverse image search, and now I would like to share it with you.
Some days ago, a friend of mine sent me news from a new blog in WhatsApp. That was a biased narrative that seems to be fake and against people and their beliefs and admitted that they give some Ethiopian women a series of drugs to reduce their population! (Indirect genocide). The website name was washingtondailyreport! Use a logo appears to be official to get phony credit, which makes me even more suspicious.
https://washingtondailyreport.com/years-denying-israel-finally/
I had doubts and then checked for the reverse image search as the first strategy for this web page’s main photo.
https://londondailyreport.com/israel-admits-sterilizing-ethiopian/
Or this one with exactly same content:
https://howafrica.com/after-years-of-denying-it-israel-finally-admits-to-sterilizing-black-ethiopian-jewish-immigrants-without-their-knowledge/?fbclid=IwAR12Sk9Hd70m_TAAxBcNv_Ksf16yU51YO4U4gL-AMlfKr4FpNOtP20r-PkI
They wrote on the same date in 2019, and some of them had many ads! then I found that a similar page with a real story for that photo from BBC of Somali that was written almost one year ago in 2018, you can use a bot to translate the content, which is not a bias content. And the story is different.
https://www.bbc.com/somali/war-43963488
They use photos from the BBC in 2018 without considering Copy-right! This Fact is almost enough to say it is Fake! But I continued.
I checked Alexa rank. Alexa.com, for many years, was website ranking before even “Amazon.com” existence. Now the domain is sold to Amazon, but the functionality is almost the same. It shows the interconnected web- sites that referenced or cited this website. One of the websites was
londontondailyreport.com! Containing the same news from two different countries without immeasurable citations!
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/washingtondailyreport.com.
The references and citations are insufficient.
These fake news distributed in social media rapidly then causes an unwanted filtering system in the social network than can accidentally filter facts.
The above strategies are just simple methods to find the Fact as soon as possible. Websites like www.mywot.com that people can report website, check the credibility and expert ranking, and annotation.Which strategies you know to find the Fact in your daily life rather than the above method? Please put your comment below.
Image sources:
https://www.wpr.org/other-states-mandate-masks-wisconsins-path-remains-unclear